Submitted by: Troy Lajeunesse When I was younger my Gokmis compared me to an orca; I was constantly moving around, making new friends and connections in every new place I lived but no matter what I would always make my […]
Submitted by: Angela Sproule Before the Covid pandemic, I was working and attending school full time. Some days, the only time I spent with my three-year-old son was during the drive home from daycare. Mostly I would have to sacrifice […]
Submitted by: Camille Scherger March 13th, 2020 had been circled on my calendar for over 6 months. It was my team’s first game of the women’s hockey national championships and something that we had been working towards the last few […]
Submitted by Thinh Nguyen The year-long book club meets once a month to discuss chapters of Desmond Cole’s bestseller The Skin We’re In. It was the summer of 2018. Yolanda Hood was with a friend downtown Charlottetown, who started pulling her […]
Submitted by: Clare Murphy My story of self through the pandemic starts back in 2017. While many of my friends were filling out Rotary Exchange applications, for a year abroad, I was anxiously sitting back. Although I have always loved […]
By Logan MacLean Photo via PEI Humane Society Facebook Jennifer Harkness knew the P.E.I. Humane Society was getting a large donation a couple weeks before the news broke. She’d spoken with the anonymous donor a couple times on the phone […]
Submitted by Logan MacLean Photo from Robertson Library Keri McCaffrey wasn’t the type to know what career she wanted at age seven. She wasn’t even sure in her third year of university. She started an English degree, but switched into […]
By Cindy Nguyen Jenna Mae Ellsworth (left) and Annabelle Charron (right) (photo credits: Cindy Nguyen) Jenna Mae Ellsworth smiled while looking at the badge on her UPEI women’s basketball uniform. “My mom used to play at UPEI, then coached here […]
By Cindy Nguyen Ian Hoang, a UPEI student from Vietnam, Facetimes with his sister in Hanoi, showing her movie posters at Charlottetown Cineplex theatres (photo credits: Cindy Nguyen) Ian Hoang looked out the window at 2 a.m. and couldn’t believe […]
Anonymous Submitted Mental health is something we always talk about now. However, in my experience, we always talk about “other people” who struggle with their mental health. Anyone can struggle with mental illness. Anyone. Especially during this time of year […]
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